The Lock-Up: A Detective Mystery -- John Banville, Hardcover

Booker Prize winner and "Irish master" (New Yorker) John Banville's most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a globe-spanning mystery

In 1950s Dublin, Rosa Jacobs, a young history scholar, is found dead in her car. Renowned pathologist Dr. Quirke and DI St. John Strafford begin to investigate the death as a murder, but it's the victim's older sister Molly, an established journalist, who discovers a lead that could crack open the case.

One of Rosa's friends, it turns out, is from a powerful German family that arrived in Ireland under mysterious circumstances shortly after World War II. But as Quirke and Strafford close in, their personal lives may put the case--and everyone involved--in peril, including Quirke's own daughter.

Spanning the mountaintops of Italy, the front lines of World War II Bavaria, the gritty streets of Dublin and other unexpected locales, The Lock-Up is an ambitious and arresting mystery by one of the world's most celebrated authors.

Author: John Banville
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Published: 05/23/2023
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.32w x 1.08d
ISBN: 9781335449634

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/2022 pg. 7
Booklist 03/01/2023 pg. 30